J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours

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J.M.W. Turner > 1802-18 Academician and professor > Farnley Hall and Yorkshire c.1808-24 > Farnley Sketchbook > Artwork

Joseph Mallord William Turner The East Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall; Farnley Hall and Architectural Details 1818

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Joseph Mallord William Turner, ‘The East Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall; Farnley Hall and Architectural Details’ 1818
Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775–1851
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The East Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall; Farnley Hall and Architectural Details 1818
D12018
Turner Bequest CLIII 14
Pencil on white wove paper, 111 x 185 mm
Stamped in black ‘CLIII 14’ bottom right
 
Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856
This is the right half of a double-page spread continued from D12017; Turner Bequest CLIII 13a, opposite, recording the East Lodges at Farnley Hall with associated details of the gates and main house. The main sketch on the present page served as the basis of a finished watercolour of the East Lodges, Farnley Hall (private collection)1, painted for Walter Fawkes about 1818 and numbered and named as ‘20 New Lodge’ in the list of Farnley and related subjects compiled by Turner in the present sketchbook (D12013; Turner Bequest CLIII 11a).
For comment on the attribution of the design of these gates to Turner himself see D12017.

David Hill
June 2009

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Wilton 1979, p.368 no.589 as ‘Gate and Lodges, Farnley’.

How to cite

David Hill, ‘The East Lodge Gates, Farnley Hall; Farnley Hall and Architectural Details 1818 by Joseph Mallord William Turner’, catalogue entry, June 2009, in David Blayney Brown (ed.), J.M.W. Turner: Sketchbooks, Drawings and Watercolours, Tate Research Publication, September 2014, https://www.tate.org.uk/art/research-publications/jmw-turner/joseph-mallord-william-turner-the-east-lodge-gates-farnley-hall-farnley-hall-and-r1146651, accessed 23 November 2024.